San Joaquin County Biographies


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HENRY B. MUNSON.
 
        A prosperous farmer and stockman who resides in the vicinity of French 
Camp is Henry B. Munson and he has been eminently successful as regards material 
affairs, likewise is he prominent and of broad spirit concerning the larger 
community affairs and the questions and interests of the world about him. He is 
classed as one of the representative men of San Joaquin County, and has been 
tested and proved a man of capability and worth in various relations of a busy 
life. He was born on the old Laudenbach ranch near Ripon, October 6, 1876, a son 
of A. B. Munson, a native of Maine, who came to California via Cape Horn on a 
small sailing vessel in 1850. He is now living retired at his home, 628 North 
Sierra Nevada Street, Stockton.
        Henry B. Munson was reared on his father's farm and began his education 
in the Castle and Barefield schools. In 1884 his parents removed to Turlock, 
where, they conducted the Fountain Hotel for one year. After two years at 
Turlock, Mr. Munson returned to the ranch on the French Camp Road near French 
Camp, where he remained until 1894, when he moved to Stockton and became 
associated with his father in contract construction of roads and pavements in 
Stockton. While the father was the head of the business, yet our subject took 
actual charge as construction foreman when but nineteen years of age. In 1905, 
A. B. Munson obtained the Government contract to build the retaining wall on the 
north side of the Yuba River, from Deguerra Point to Marysville, which work was 
successfully completed in 1907. He also had charge of the construction of the 
Orland Irrigation project from 1907 to 1909. The contract for the construction 
of the retaining wall on the Yuba River required three years to complete and is 
a permanent example of the kind of work done by this firm for the U. S. 
Government; also many of the subdivisions of Stockton have been improved with 
pavements and street work done by this company. The firm discontinued business 
in 1915.
        The marriage of Mr. Munson, which occurred in December, 1910, united him 
with Miss Mabel B. Du Bois, who was born near Hurley, N. Y., and came to 
California in the early part of 1910. She is the daughter of Peter and Lillian 
(North) Du Bois, both natives of New York, and they are now residing at 
Kingston, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Munson have two children. Marian D. and Harold 
David. For the past twenty years Mr. Munson has been a member of the Odd Fellows 
and also of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. In politics he is a 
Republican and is known as a citizen of high principles. Mr. Munson is now 
located at French Camp, where he is engaged in buying and selling livestock 
throughout San Joaquin County.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p  1518        
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.